This is Randy Homan with the Becker's Healthcare Podcast.
I'm thrilled today to be joined by Marilyn Sand.
She's a pediatric dentist at her own practice, Naples Pediatric Dentistry,
as well as the founder and CEO of Good Checkup Corporation. Marilyn,
will you please introduce yourself and tell us a bit about your background.
Hi Randy. I'm so excited to be here today. I really appreciate the opportunity.
Uh, a little bit about myself is that yes,
I am a pediatric dentist by training and I have 20 plus
years of clinical experience and also private practice ownership.
So I am well versed in all phases of pediatric dentistry and I've always
been really excited about innovating in our space. Earlier,
um,
on in my career I had boosting success with
a product that I designed and patented and then brought to market
with young innovations called the Zubi Pro Angles.
And the intent was to bring more pediatric focus
to the dental industry to show that children are individuals,
pediatric patients are not just many adults and we need to bring the fund to
dentistry.
I've been a strong advocate of prevention and I have
over the covid d brought something to market that I'm hoping is going
to be the next evolution for dentistry and that is to strengthen and empower
our patient dentist relationship and elevate our profession through
having meaningful conversations. It's a bit lengthy, but that's about me.
Definitely about, So interesting. Thank you for sharing.
So what are your top priorities today?
My top priorities today would say are to continue
to move dentistry into the future realm,
giving dentists the opportunity to immediately take advantage of
cloud-based records systems and to provide
excellence in care by providing access to care to patients
anywhere.
My real priority is to put your office in your hand and
see what you can do because patients really appreciate being able to speak with
their providers and to be able to onboard them virtually is really
the new age and what is in demand.
So I'd like to give dentists that opportunity immediately.
Definitely, I think it's a great priority.
How do you anticipate your role and teams will evolve over the next 18 months?
I believe that in the dental profession, as in my practice,
our role as dentist is going to evolve
in the way of being more of the knowledge provider
to be able to establish rapport with patients through acting as
the quarterback to care the person that can
educate a patient,
to empower a patient to improve their healthcare
through conversations.
And those conversations are most likely going to be taking place more and more
virtually so that patients can then be triaged
properly and referred properly and just really schedules
to become much more efficient.
And they're going to be people that are probably new team members that we
haven't even envisioned yet providing actual physical care. But again,
the goal is to be able to increase our access to
care from a patient standpoint and as dentists to be able to increase patient's
ability to communicate with us as professionals.
Mm-hmm. definitely.
And then our last question is what are you most excited about right now and what
makes you nervous?
I think they're kind of the same thing,
is what I'm most excited about is getting good check up into the hands of
dentists and the feedback that we're going to receive
is something that not,
not that it makes me nervous and that did I think it out right? Because a,
a lot of this,
I know it really was my vision as a dental practitioner and
also as a parent.
This is our version right now as pediatric on the app store,
in the play store.
And what I'm excited slash nervous about is seeing what
dentists will do with the tools that we give them.
So to be able to give them the technology that will allow
them to quickly onboard new patients,
be able to triage new patients to be able to e-prescribe,
but also to get paid for their time,
for their valuable advice and care that they provide in a way
that can expand their reach through social media and through
word of mouth. I, I'm excited about it. I'm excited to see, and also,
uh,
just nervous to make sure that really I'm able to put all of the
features that are desired and excited to hear what new features
might be desired with this tool to be able to
empower dentists.
Definitely. I think, I know I like with anticipation,
excitement and nervous go hand in hand,
so I totally understand how that's both exciting but nerve wracking.
Yes, yes. So I'm,
I'm very interested in having a dentist's beta
test. We're offering a free three month trial that includes our
e-prescribe and again,
having your office in your hand means you can have a tele dentistry visit
where you onboard a new patient, you're not caught off guard.
You'll be able to, uh,
indicate what your desired consultation fee is.
You will be also able to customize how much time you spend with a patient.
You are able to, um, offer your schedule as you wish.
And after your visit is completed,
you've had a virtual visit that's video and chat.
You can send an e-prescription immediately dictate your
notes and uh, send that information to another,
uh, dentist if you so wish or to your office staff to be able to schedule that
patient accordingly.
That sounds great. So Marilyn, it was a pleasure speaking with you today.
I really enjoyed it and I look forward to connecting with you again soon.
Thank you so much, Andy. Again, I,
I appreciate the opportunity and I look forward to our next conversation.
Definitely.